In honor of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, a somewhat silly, very tongue-in-cheek attempt to have some fun as a result of comments made by former SFWA Vice-President Dr. Howard Hendrix, I'm offering up, totally FREE, a reprint of one of my Wannoshay alien stories:

"Redemption, Drawing Near" -- FREE!

I wish I had an unpublished tale to really meet the qualifications of a "webscab," but my currently small list of unpublished stories are either out to a potential editor already, or not quite up to snuff for sharing at this point.

In any case, this is the first story, time-wise, in the chronology of my Wannoshay stories, introducing one of my favorite characters, Father Joshua. It include a slightly different version of chapters one and three of my upcoming novel The Wannoshay Cycle (due out in January of next year, in case ya forgots).

Ah, it's great to be a webscab and technopeasant. I'd like the record to show that I wasted exactly one hour putting together this entry and all its related links as well as the web page containing the story itself. I could've chopped a cord of wood in that time!

Also posted to my other journal and to the IPST group.


(image by the uber-talented Robin Catesby)

UPDATED: Feel free to peruse the following links for other stories of mine available online:

• "Breathing Trouble"
• "Peterson & Son Automotive"
• "Waiting for Joey"
• "What Was Left Standing"
• "Winter Hunt"
• "An Outrider's Tale"
• "Black Angels"
• "Mother of the Bride"
• "Remainders"
• "Riverrun Alley"
• "Crossing the Camp"
• "Explosions"
• "Wantaviewer"